where to buy garage floor paint
 

just inherited the family bidness. yay. i need to redo the floors and wat i wanna do i paint it with that garage floor ----. gonna paint it white so it looks blingin.

anyone know wat brand to go with and im only needin enuff to cover at most 1000 sq ft. :6 :6 :6

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Home Depot, Lowes, Mernards all sell epoxy floor paints.

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u-coat-it

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make sure you prep, prep, prep. no moisture, dust grease ------- nothing, steam clean it.

then make sure you have a 2-part epoxy coating.

call this company, WIT floor coatings.
http://www.witcoating.com/

they do all our sub work on floors.

then pick up some black beauty grit and toss that around on it too.

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Don't get anything water based.

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:1 <- this icon was created for people like steve.


With that said, My dad has had the u-coat-it in his garage for about 5 years and its held up great. I plan to get it, when I finally own a home. Like someone else said, you gotta clean the ever living piss out of the floor before using that ---- though.

What kind of business did you inherit?

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a tattoo studio. ive worked here for 7 years for 5 straight and then in and out other years. shops ben open for close to 10 years now. oldest in town now.



yea im gonna clean the ---- outta it starting thursday nite. i gotta get the rest of the ---- on the floor the lazy fucks that used to work here didnt get up. they told my mom they were gonna do a real good job. yea fukin rite left all the glue on the floor and just rolled on some black primer. and they were done. ---- sticks. i fired 2 of em and have ben runnin the rest of the ---- that brought with them off for the last 7 months. they almost killed our bussiness completly. anyhow

got a lotta ---- to do. also gotta get the building up to code because they laws have changed here finnaly.


also sellin my civic when i get it painted and crunk up. had a great n2o build going. but oh well gotta cash in when i can. great thing is i just bought a 93 si so i get to play with another d.


but ima post some pics of the shops current shape and get yous guys opions. lol. rite now im still fishin for ideas. i know im paintin it green with teh white floor. kinda a lite shade of green maybe like you see in a hospital to show how clean the place is going to be. rite now its blood red and black in here witch i hate alot. its makes me nice and angry somtimes

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post up! before and after pics are always great!

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You should also look into staining the floor there is alot of really cool ---- you can do and its pretty cheap
http://www.kemiko.com/photo_gallery.htm

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ok so i went to lowes and all i can afford rite now is the water based stuff. blah. so wats so bad about it?
the reason i say this is because i can do hte 3 rooms for 120 waterbased and 600 for the other kind.

the water based is still going to have the clear coatover the top and im going grey now becuase it wont show all the dirt so bad.

some suggestions please

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What suggestions do you want? You already did it.

Water diffuses through concrete, so most floor paints will eventually bubble. Ucoatit and good products like that will take a really really long time before that happens.

Water based = not as hard = not as durable, plain and simple.

Once you think you've cleaned it enough, do it once more. If you do a bad prep job and it starts to peel, you have 5x the work just to get back to where you are now.

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i jsut raelly wanted to know why hte water based was bad. so wat if i put a water proofer ---- on the cement first let that dry adn then rollon the paint.

im going to guess that it wount like the water proofing stuff.lol.

rite now the only way i can do it is water based becasue of price. mom left me behind on rent 3 months and other bills yeehaw

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I work at Lowe's. Dont Paint it stain it, It will last alot longer.

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if your on a budget, defintely stain it.

coatings are not cheap for a reason.

dont go cheap, if its not a garage floor you definetly dont need to coat it.

just go with the stain as mentioned before.

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hahaha word i work at S.W. def stain it , cause it will last longer. although 2 part epoxies work well. The big thing to do is to acid etch the floor so that the stain penetrates really well. Make sure you get a producst that is resistant to HOT TIRE PICK UP cause that ---- will own you especialy if you try to cut corners and get something cause it was cheap.

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I used Rustoleum "professional" oil based epoxy and it turned out ok. I thought it was going to settle better than it did and hide the roller marks, but it didn't. The chips were a big failure and I wish I wouldn't have used them. Most didn't stick and the ones that did aren't actually sunk into the epoxy enough to blend in smoothly.

I used acid and some etching ---- to clean the floor. I also used filler to fill all the cracks and holes. Take your time, mask ---- off and it should turn out good. My floor has been soaked in diesel fuel for days at a time and that ---- doesn't even phase it. :6

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www.Epoxy-coat.com


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Clean it the best you can, then clean it again.
If you are somewhere that fumes are not a concern use a diluted mixture of muratic acid and water. Put it on strong enough that it etches the concrete, it eats best when put onto a dry surface. Don't let it dry up while on the crete, rinse the ---- out of it when done. The run off will kill plants, so if it is going into your yard or neighbors let the water run for a bit to dilute the run off even more.

Next get some TSP (trisodium phosphate) It should be in the paint section, dilute it with hot water and stir it till it's dissolved. Use a fairly stiff brush on a broom handle and scrub the ---- out of the floor with the mixture, once again not letting it dry with the solution on the surface.

Then rinse, rinse, rinse.

This is probably your best bet for getting it clean, I have probably painted a few thousand concrete swimming pools this way.

The water based stuff doesn't get anywhere near as hard as the epoxy does. Also once the epoxy is set about the only thing that will make it come off is a grinder.
Anything that will remove normal paint will mess the water based stuff up.

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I haven't read the posts above me, but I can tell you this: You don't want cheap garage floor paint. If you can buy it at a Home Depot or Lowes you probably don't want it. In a garage you have brake cleaner, gas, oil, etc flying around. When I built my motor in my gf's dad's garage I sprayed brake cleaner down the bores to clean out the dust specks. When it landed on the floor it peeled up the paint. And it wasn't cheap ---- either. He said he wasn't worried about it, he's done it before, and he found some stuff in Grainger or on the internet or something that's a thick chemical resistant epoxy. It isn't cheap, but it's supposed to stand up to oil, grease, rust stains, etc. And rubber won't leave black marks on it too. I'm just saying don't go cheap because it's a pain in the ass to lay down and you might as well do it right the first time.

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Home Depot actually does sell an oil based epoxy. I haven't had mine for very long, but it's holding up pretty good so far. I've spilled fuel all over it and left it for days and it cleaned right up with a pressure washer.

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The advice you have here is sufficient. If you wanted to get a cheap water based coating and then do an expensive solvent based clear, I'm not sure you'd have an issue, other than the price of the clear. Either way, you'll probably end up doing it with a water based, which is ok I guess as long as you clean it super good and hope for long term results.

Because if the water based paint is used on top of something used to stop water from penetrating concrete, you'll have a layer of paint, not connected to your floor.

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Because if the water based paint is used on top of something used to stop water from penetrating concrete, you'll have a layer of paint, not connected to your floor.


thats kinda wat i figured.

hmm i really wanna do the nice coating on the floor. guess i need to see how i am money wise.i really wanna get the place outta debt first but at the same time the only time i can do this is next week.

hmm newsflash. maybe i should pay off my loan that i have and it would get me outta the whole and pay for the stuff easy as pie. think ima do that. then i wont have to sell my car either. sweet.

thanks guys for all the help. will start a befor and after of the shop thread just becuase.